"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry"
No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it. The saying is adapted from a line in “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.”
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I experienced something the other day that reminded me of this famous quote. How a well laid plain, a scheme that was supposed to produce a certain result ended up creating just the opposite. I enjoyed the experience of seeing its failure because it was a sneaky, evil scheme. And the scheme may still work in spite of this obvious setback. But it was good to see it fail so miserably and pathetically on its first try.
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